Below are many of the more than 170 five-hour 'weeks' of Exploring Music that have been created since 2003.
The first seven minutes of every program are free to sample. Several entire 5-hour programs are also free to listen (marked 'free' below).
For complete access to all of the shows, click here to become a subscriber. To sort through the shows by composers click here.
To see the playlist for a given show, click on the show and then on the 'playlist' button beneath any of the five one-hour programs.

Sweet Home Chicago (FREE)

Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival was founded in the thick of the Great Depression to offer classical music for free in the city's sprawling lakefront park. Bill traces the history of this exhuberant populist festival. Note: this is a slightly shortened version of the original program - some music selections are awaiting rights clearance and will be added later.

The Exploring Music streaming website is made possible by Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown and Susan & Richard Kiphart.

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You have opened up the world of Classical Music to me, where previously, it seemed too complicated.

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Steffen Demeter

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This is simply one of the very best radio programmes in the medium!...The study of the people, the times, and the events that inform the music we otherwise enjoy and even, heaven forbid, take for granted, brings the entire world of the music and the composer to life.

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Walther Davies

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There isn't a program you broadcast on Exploring Music" that isn't of interest. I find them all engaging. It is a combination of variety of subject, intellectual curiosity and your obvious enthusiasm which characterize your satisfying programs.

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Michael Sanders

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It’s a great way to re-engage myself with consciousness before heading off to work.

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Kourtney

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I Love this program! I am in 7th grade and I am the complete opposite of the other kids. I am 4th chair in the orchestra and I love to read. But most of all, I LOVE classical music!

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Claudia Wertz

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Your show has helped open my mind and heart to this world of music, and every show I hear confirms my place in music and gives me new ideas for where I'd like to go with it in the future….I grew up with classical music as a child and always held it in my heart, but I didn't have the confidence to be a good student (or a good violinist.)

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Christine Anderson

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Listening to you is almost interactive.You invite us in with so many well modulated dramatic and informative comments, enticing, enthusiastic interpretations, and coherent, beautiful presentations. It's a privilege to follow you into the musical space you create.

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Sally Rosenbaum

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I just love this program. It is soothing and comfortable at the end of the day. I find his comments interesting, but they aren't so dragged out that there is very little music. The balance of both is just right.